Sustainable development overview

Jischa gives an overview of sustainable development and technology assessment, particularly from the German point of view and reviewing the German initiatives... 

Reichman, J. H. with C. Hasenzahl. 2003. UNCTAD, Non-Voluntary Licensing of Patented Inventions Historical Perspective, Legal Framework Under TRIPS, and an Overview of the Practice in Canada and the USA. (Project on IPRs and Sustainable Development, Issue Paper No. 5, 2003). 

This chapter outlines the principles of green chemistry, and explains the connection between catalysis and sustainable development. It covers the concepts of environmental impact, atom economy, and life-cycle analysis, with hands-on examples. Then it introduces the reader to heterogeneous catalysis, homogeneous catalysis, and biocatalysis, explaining what catalysis is and why it is important. The last two sections give an overview of the tools used in catalysis research, and a list of recommended books on specialized subjects in catalysis. 

Figure 4.12. Overview of the Strategic Sustainable Development decision-making approach (adapted from Robert et al., 2002).

K. L. Coyne, Overview Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development Standards. Presentation made to The Auditing Roundtable, New York Metro-New England Regional Meeting, March 6, 2002. 

Chapter 3 gives an overview of the possibilities offered by new equipment for process intensification, including microdevices. Membranes - also a key tool to achieving sustainable development through process intensification - are covered in Chapter 4. Chapter 5 is dedicated to techno-economic aspects, and more specifically to the accounting for chemical sustainability, because sustainability requires the capability to assess different alternatives and to account for the effective global impact and benefits of the adoption of new solutions. 

ESCAP. (1997). Sustainable Development of Water Resources in Asia and the Pacific an overview. New York, United Nations, 162 pp. 

Goosen, M.F.A., Laboy-Nieves, E.N., Schaffner, F., and Abdelhadi, A. 2009. The environment, sustainable development and human wellbeing An overview. In Environmental Management, Sustainable Development and Human Health, E.N. Laboy-Nieves, F. Schaffner, A. Abdelhadi, and M.F.A. Goosen (eds.), pp. 3-12. London, U.K. Taylor Francis Group. 

This book is intended as an overview of current policy, practice and management of landfills, that considers the relative merits of various options in each of the above, in the context of sustainable development. As such, I hope that those who are familiar with landfill will find food for thought, while those who have relatively little knowledge of landHll may gain a better understanding of some the key principles and issues in landfill today. 

Brent, A. C. (2012). An overview of environmental management and sustainable development concepts for management practices. In W. Nel (Ed.), Management for engineering and technology scientists. Cape Town Juta. 

L. Shen, J. Haufe, M. K. Patel, Product overview and market projection of emerging bio-based plastics PRO-BIP 2009 Final report. Group Science, Technology and Society (STS), Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development and Innovation, Utrecht University, 2009. 

In an overview, the purpose of a sustainability report is succinctly stated Sustainability reporting is the practice of measuring, disclosing, and being accountable to internal and external stakeholders for organizational performance towards the goal of sustainable development. ... 

Whitley, M., Zervos, A., Timmer, M., Butera, F., (2004). Meeting the targets and putting renewables to work. Overview Report for MITRE Project, ALTENER Programme. Corsham Directorate General for Eneigy and Transport, Eneigy for Sustainable Development. 

The earth is constructed by all elements in the periodic table. Mapping of the spatial distribution of nearly all the elements in the periodic table will get a new overview of the earth surface construction for better stewarship of sustainable environmental management with sustainable mineral resources development. 

In conclusion, this book constitutes the first step of IDECAT in developing a coherent framework of activities to create a bio-based and sustainable society through catalysis. This book is at the same time an updated overview of the state-of-the-art and a roadmap that defines new directions, opportunities and needs for R D. Finally, we warmly thank Dr. Ad Kolen, NRSC-Catalysis (The Netherlands), whose continued support made possible both the workshop cited and this book. 

Therefore, the goals of this chapter are to (a) provide an overview of waste minimization and its relationship to environmental sustainability (b) portray the causes of sustainability problems and diagnose the defects of current industrial manufacturing processes in light of MNT, and (c) analyze and extrapolate the prospect of additional capabilities that humanity may gain from the development of MNT that have the potential to ascertain total environmental sustainability. 

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